I hate John McSame!

If only you could send bar-b-q ribs over the internets tubes.

"The cables"

Your giddy-I'm something but at least he doesn't like me either so that good.

What could he possibly like about a medium that will humiliate and embarrass him across every day of his decrepit frog march to ignominy when he can finally sit down with Bob Dole and discuss graceful retirement?

"But...but ..TV World oracles swore it was in the bag."

And I'll dance on the wreckage of the broken tin kazoo.

When will C&L start an open thread today?
It´s early sunday morning here and I´m too tired to wait any longer.

OT, I do know that, but ....

Secret report: biofuel caused food crisis
Internal World Bank study delivers blow to plant energy drive

Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% - far more than previously estimated - according to a confidential World Bank report obtained by the Guardian.

The damning unpublished assessment is based on the most detailed analysis of the crisis so far, carried out by an internationally-respected economist at global financial body.

The figure emphatically contradicts the US government's claims that plant-derived fuels contribute less than 3% to food-price rises. It will add to pressure on governments in Washington and across Europe, which have turned to plant-derived fuels to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and reduce their dependence on imported oil.

Senior development sources believe the report, completed in April, has not been published to avoid embarrassing President George Bush.

"It would put the World Bank in a political hot-spot with the White House," said one yesterday.

The news comes at a critical point in the world's negotiations on biofuels policy. Leaders of the G8 industrialised countries meet next week in Hokkaido, Japan, where they will discuss the food crisis and come under intense lobbying from campaigners calling for a moratorium on the use of plant-derived fuels.

article continues, read on:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jul/03/biofuels.renewableenergy

As a Republican John McCain relies on the public having fewer sources of information and fewer platforms for communication that cannot be controlled by a corporate filter. The Republican's ideal internet would emulate China's or Iran's tracking users and filtering out information that does not support the official dogma.

Of course he hates the bloggers. You guys (from either side) don't live and die on "special access" the way the traditional news sources do. That means he can't buy you off with barbecues and threats of not talking to you if you don't print what he wants.

"Now you bloggers get off my lawn".

lol the feeling is mutual.

Christopher Turkel @ 5:

"The cables"

Woooow... really didn't notice that one. Why do I get the idea that when he hears someone talk of watching 'cable', he would get an image of them literally looking into the end of one? I really think he's about a couple of decades past when he would've even been able to cope with the modern world, let alone run a piece of it.

GET OFF MY LAWN YOU DIRTY FUCKING HIPPIE BLOGGERS!

I feel honored. This means that we are scaring the shit of out John McCain.

Get in line, McCain.

I wonder if his 2 piece VCR is blinking "12:00"

P.D. @ 18:

Man shakes fist at clouds!

grandpa Simpson lol

If McCain wasn't running for President I might brush off what he said as a joke.

Seriously though "I hate the bloggers" the pajama media is not going to be amused by such a remark.

I just f**ked up a five paragraph essay on the bloggers by not submitting it correctly.

Now I hate myself, and therefore the bloggers.

Maybe McCain just can't type.

Don from Canada @ 33:

I just f**ked up a five paragraph essay on the bloggers by not submitting it correctly.

Now I hate myself, and therefore the bloggers.

Maybe McCain just can't type.

Lengthy texts best done in notepad etc, then copy pasted.

he doesnt hate the bloggers. he's pimping the audience. i bet he doesnt even know he has his own blog on his own site.

Oh it gets better, Gramps is struggling mightily with that old TV World essential, the teleprompter. Evidently it befuddles him and makes a Fudd of him as he ineptly pronounces 'Lexington' several different and exciting ways that would surely make old Elmer proud.

Gramps is doomed to be left in the dust by that 'wascawwy Bawak wabbit'.

From NYT a few hours ago,

oncall @ 36:

He hates, me he really really hates me (I feel like Sally Fields at the Academy Awards). Good, it makes me feel like I've accomplished something worthwhile. I can only hope that the he internalizes so much hatred , that he eventually blows a gasket. If and when he does that, it is over.

Not just you, but 10,000s of other Interweb denizens, not to mention all those thinking voters and news history website readers, all detested by McFlipflop and his fellow GOPpers and DINOsaurs.
Their worst nightmare is people with memories and reading abilities.

The cables? Hahahaha....hey McCain!! There is even this new thingamabob that you can actually pick up a device and talk to people that are far away, even in another country now!! No shit it's amazing. This man should be in an old age home, not having his fingers near a nuke button.

i think he's thinking that he's talking about buggerers, which is a different thing all together.

His worst nightmare; he'd ban us if he could.... thank god for bloggers; (the dem ones) ; the nation will be better off for it....

I hate the bloggers too, because they haven't been able to stop fascism from coming to America.

The feeling is mutual.

I luvs me the bloggers. How else would I get any decent information? That's why he hates us. We're diluting the Koolaid. Before he could call Cindy a "C" without getting caught. Now everyone knows.

(Even if it isn't true, who cares? He's a schmuck and it's believable.)--(Sink that GOP ship.)

He also said he hated "the new fangled talkies". Says they've ruined movies. Not sure why that part of the quote was cut out.

Of coarse he hates the bloggers, because they research facts and provide links that we can click on and actually see or watch what was actually said. Of coarse that doesn't apply to right wing blogs that crop the real message just like the MSM does.

McCain's not fond of bloggers because the internet is where right wing falsehoods go to die. We need a leader that will help tap the power of individual voices and grassroots organization, not a 72-year-old Luddite.

Conservatives cannot win online because they have no central message or philosophy other than "It's OK if you are a Republican". McCain can't win online because the Ron Paul supporters are still out there, and he can't use Fox news to reach them.

Maybe it wasn't such a good idea for the GOP to use identity politics to piss all over niche groups of people at the same time those niche groups were organizing at a historically unprecedented pace. Technology's like a wave. The Dems are surfing on it, while the Republicans stand in neck-deep water and pretend the wave does not exist.

Obama '08

John Nichols (The Nation) writes:
Jesse Helms, John McCain and the Mark of the White Hands
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat/334586

Summary of Helms' political career (worth a read for that alone) but also containing this cautionary note:

..
Jesse Helms may have started as a Democrat and finished as a Republican. But he always sang "Dixie."

And those who sang it with him are now working for John McCain. Alex Castellanos, the veteran Republican media consultant who produced the so-called "White Hands" commercial that Helms used against Gantt, has according to the Washington Post been advising McCain's campaign on media strategy.

Castellanos bluntly refers to his work with Helms as "The Cause." And That cause has attracted other key players from the late senator's campaigns.

Republican strategist Charlie Black, perhaps the most prominent member of McCain's political inner circle (especially since he suggested that a terrorist attack on the U.S. would benefit the Republican's prospects this fall), advised Helms throughout much of the senator's career and played a particularly central role in the 1990 campaign, according to contemporary media accounts.
...

Don't worry. He'll change his mind six more times before the weekend is over.

What a useless out of touch old piece of shit that asshole is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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something is wrong with this picture , who would want a point man who stomps around looking for land mines ? .

I love the bloggers. Well, except for the batshitcrazyinsane righties. I'm unfond of them.

McCrazy probably still owns one of those hand-crank telephones and thinks that Gertie down at the corner store puts his calls through for him.

The power of the internet in this election will be amazing. The rightwing nutjobs are finally realizing that the American people can think for themselves. It scares the hell out of them, too.

I hate the McBushes!

digg it

McCain hates the bloggers and Amato blogs the haters.

Nice symmetry there.

karl @ 38:

get use to it johnny....he hates YouTube also because
he gets caught in lies

never fear Viacom has rushed to McFlipflops rescue, soon there wont be any contrary McC*nt videos on Youtube Google et al, just the approved ones.

KayInMaine @ 58:

Johnny McTeleprompter doesn't understand bloggers because never in his life did he listen to his constituents and is surprised Americans have voices, opinions, and know more than he does. He's gotta be in shock.

McNasty just listens to his constitution, ie his bowels and how they are swinging each morning.
Some days they are rather loud, louder than McNasty and his colourful invective.
We wont go down the road of McC*nts inner voices, some thing are best left to the nightmare imagination.

Cables? I think poor ole John was referring to telegrams.
That's how he get all his important news.
Stop.

Lord please stop!

ferrofluid (Obama 08) @ 81:

KayInMaine @ 58:

Johnny McTeleprompter doesn't understand bloggers because never in his life did he listen to his constituents and is surprised Americans have voices, opinions, and know more than he does. He's gotta be in shock.

McNasty just listens to his constitution, ie his bowels and how they are swinging each morning.
Some days they are rather loud, louder than McNasty and his colourful invective.
We wont go down the road of McC*nts inner voices, some thing are best left to the nightmare imagination.

I bet Johnny McTeleprompter constantly hears an echo from his hearing aids. Another reason why he's gone batshit crazy! I'd go crazy too if I constantly heard that humming noise in addition to having to bang on the teleprompter to get the picture to come in good. Tough being McTeleprompter!

Let me put it this way McShame.." Hate the 24 hr. cable news and I hate the
radio talk shows, but I love the bloggers since they are the only ones and source
we can go to in order to ascertain the facts." Put that in your pipe, or up you ass,
and smoke it.

"If we got the cables, what do we need them thar tubes for? Gabby Hayes didn't have no blog and lookit how successful he turned out!"

A vote for McCain is a vote for friggin' Abe Simpson!

And you, MCCain, are a better person without them, is that correct? That, I can guarantee, will never be a statement from your campaign but that's what you mean by inference. Damn those nosy people who can find out, in a new York minute:

1. What you've said over the years
2. What you've said lately to completely refute #1
3. That you're going to keep your team together (as if it matters) so the margin of victory for Obama stays over the moon.

As an aside, I still hope bush (does not deserve a capital B) gets an earful every time he goes public from this moment on. The real serious, and I mean serious, protests will be after he leaves office and I truly believe he and his misadministration will be tried for Crimes Against Humanity. Love to see what his Liebrary will say....

It's ok. He hates the teleprompter, too.

And the telephone.

And the TV.

And the ipod. Can't make those darn things work at all...

Meat @ 94:

WE'VE GOT THE CABLES.

And the internets.

Good for him....Saying what he thinks.

Bloggers are utterly stupid generally. ....

I'm giving up.

Ruthless People @ 76:

MountainMan23 @ 61:

John Nichols (The Nation) writes:
Jesse Helms, John McCain and the Mark of the White Hands
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat/334586

Summary of Helms' political career (worth a read for that alone) but also containing this cautionary note:

..
Jesse Helms may have started as a Democrat and finished as a Republican. But he always sang "Dixie."

And those who sang it with him are now working for John McCain. Alex Castellanos, the veteran Republican media consultant who produced the so-called "White Hands" commercial that Helms used against Gantt, has according to the Washington Post been advising McCain's campaign on media strategy.

Castellanos bluntly refers to his work with Helms as "The Cause." And That cause has attracted other key players from the late senator's campaigns.

Republican strategist Charlie Black, perhaps the most prominent member of McCain's political inner circle (especially since he suggested that a terrorist attack on the U.S. would benefit the Republican's prospects this fall), advised Helms throughout much of the senator's career and played a particularly central role in the 1990 campaign, according to contemporary media accounts.
...

More Jesse Helms "greats" http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2893560 A small fearful man who contributed nothing but hate and fear. He will be remembered as nothing more than a sad footnote in American political history of a bygone era. He's dealing with a lot of karma right now.

Its an uncomfortable position - much like when Falwell died. I hate to take joy in someone's death, but what else am I supposed to do. There is no one who can honestly eulogize either of those two without throwing in some huge disclaimers.

I wasn't too sad when Nixon, Reagan, or Milosevic died. I won't be broken up when Kissinger, Robertson, and Bob Novak die either. Kristol I would kill with my bare hands if I ever met him.

To #99- "Kristol I would kill with my bare hands if I ever met him." Careful, sweetie what you say round here- although I understand your sentiment- don't want NSA or others dragging you off into the netherworld. As creepy as he is (Bill K.) don't drag yourself down on account of him- Just a crazybitch observation...

It amazes me that the GOP has people like Bush and McSame who do not realize that everything they say is recorded and posted on the internets so they can't lie the way that Ronnie Reagan did. Conservative really does mean a resistance to progress. These losers are dumb as dirt and crooked as a stick.

He's just repeating what Americans hear all the time: "It's the bloggers that are causing all the trouble! It's not reliable if you heard it on some blog! I hate bloggers!" That makes about as much sense as disparaging all magazines because not all of them are reliable or contain accurate information. And in McCain's case, there are plenty of right-wing blogs that are trumpeting exactly the kinds of stuff he loves. Like most Americans, he repeats common phrases without thinking.

Heh. I doubt he even knows what a blogger is :)

Hell, last year at this time I barely knew what a blogger was.

The politicians have problems with the bloggers because the blogs provide an alternative to the corporate media in shaping public opinion. Remember that the courts have found that "an uninhibited marketplace of ideas in which truth will prevail" - a marketplace where there is a "wide diversity of viewpoints from a multiplicity of sources..." facilitates an informed decision at the polls. The discussions at the blogs help to dismiss the specious explanations from the substantiated. I found the read at the Huffington blog quite illuminating. That's the key term, illuminating: to make clear : elucidate. The big keyword for the alternative reality crowd: obfuscate. Another term for the alternative reality crowd: lie.

Now, remembering that making an informed decision depends on "an uninhibited marketplace of ideas in which truth will prevail" - a marketplace where there is a "wide diversity of viewpoints from a multiplicity of sources...", one has to look at the telecom participation in the wiretapping in light of policy decisions that occurred during that period. There was the FCC ruling to eliminate competition on the "last mile" of copper leading into a home, which reduced competition in dsl. Now, we see the cables and DSL providers insinuating that bandwidth constraints are coming. Like media consolidation, the reduction of competition in internet is essential in implementing bandwidth constraints, so that the internet doesn't become a competitor to the broadcast media.

Aljazeera English, Russia Today, and CNN-IBN seem to be working from this link. There is also a link to PressTv, which I didn't check out, because that's available from TVUnetworks. It's an Iranian station - while I'm capable of dismissing the specious theory, I like to hear from the horses mouth once in a while. When the government is dissing the Iranians, I like to hear their point of view also, because Iraq has taught us that or government is not to be depended on to tell us the truth.

John McCain: ‘I hate the bloggers’

Excuuuuuse me. Let me inform you sir that the feeling is mutual.

Saying "I hate the bloggers" is kind of like saying I hate a large percentage of American people. I wonder how many people in his audience that were laughing have computers. Cognitive dissonance anyone?

What's the context? He clearly was half joking and half serious. Getting riled up without the context is stupid.

Don't you usually hate what you do not understand?

ferrofluid (Obama 08) @ 42:

Piren @ 40:

Hey John, my mother blogs. You hate my mother?

Does her father own a brewery ?

Now that's funny, though, beer distributor would be more accurate. I suppose as long as she has mega bucks it wouldn't matter if it was from selling Russian guns to Iran.

katie @ 120:

This is just further proof that if hell freezes over and he becomes president, McCrank will ban all technology dating after 1980 and enact every policy he can to take us back there.

You "hate bloggers," McCain? Hmm, hating Americans, how presidential of you. (/snark).

You got that right. After bush pulled that bs about environmental checks on solar energy to make sure it wasn't going to harm the environment . And McCain will just follow on that trail. The guy has no clue. Well actually he does have a clue, He's just not listening to himself. fool.

Too bad. The internet and bloggers are the new, unfiltered or spun journalism. Deal with it, McSame. God bless the bloggers! They are a drink of cool, fresh water in an arid desert of lies and misdirection.

No Sensors In The Bloggersphear

Say what you will John McSame. You can find it somewhere in the "Bloggersphear."
I know there is a lot of slant on blogs. However, if you really want the truth, you can find it somewhere on a blog. The mainstream media can't touch it, sensor it, and because they deal in some truths, they can't challenge it.

On the blog, the everyday person can express their unique perspective. Now, the little notion you had about something the MSM would not touch can be brought out, confirmed, and passed on. And it that is not enough, you can add links to where the truth lives. Hows that for "you can't touch this?"

If I were a Republican, I would hate the blogs too. Anything and every thing they say can be researched and exposed for the true lie it usually is. Since McSame hates it, I will take the time to celebrate it with all its diversity, its uniqueness, and its collective powers.

Joseph

LOL...I'm a hothead too. So when I see McSame open his ugly gob, I get the same reaction as when Bush or Cheney open their idjit holes. A kind of Tourette's takes over.

Yep. The blogs are here to keep those assholes lies apparent. And meanwhile, McBushit can take his comfort in the garbage propaganda of mainstream media...ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, NPR, NY Times. They all fucking suck the shit out of the ass of life which should suit senile Johnny Flyboy just fine.

Don't worry folks, in a week he'll tell the press that he loves the bloggers.

You people are self absorbed.

Well, I'm sure the feelings are mutual.

Of course McBush hates bloggers. The internet is the most democratic tool the People ever had. Someday, all voting will be done by computer (and Diebold will NOT be involved!). McBush dislike bloggers because he can't stand the very idea of democracy. No oligarch does. You don't have to be a war-mongering plutocrat married to a beer brewing heiress to exercise your First Amendment privileges online. You can be a little guy right out of a Frank Capra movie, a nobody. If the McBushes have their way, there won't even be an internet. Look at China, where you can't even do business online unless you agree to censor your content. McBush isn't a democrat (small "d"), he's another crypto-fascist in the tradition of Shrub, Rove, Cheney, et al. He's a born again neocon.

Hate the bloggers....hate fellow Americans.....hate freedom.

that is funny... I don't think he had any idea what he was getting into after saying a comment like that... Cables?? Talk Radio?? I am surprised he did also bring up electicity and the light bulb

Awwwwwwwwww . . . we hate you too John. : )

Frankly, to be fair, I think your exception to his use of "cables" is a little childish. I'm sure it was shorthand for "the cable networks." For some of you people who often write illegibly, with misspellings, mispunctuation, incoherent sentences you shouldn't key in on such petty things.
And before you send further incoherent rants regarding my comment, I do not like McLame myself. Grow up.

If being captured in battle and tortured for 5+ years qualifies McSame for the presidency, then the next 250 Afgan presidents are or were "residents" of GItmo.

Look, it's simple. Bloggers provide views that you will not find in the mainstream media. They provide "alternative" views that people have not considered. They make people confused about what really happened. These are views that don't go hand in hand with those of the government. That is OBVIOUSLY a bad thing. Our government always tries to tell people the truth and bloggers say other points of view that only confuse !!! Keep it simple . Listen to the government. Ignore the bloggers.

the feeling is mutual mr mcsameasbush